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Visitor Learning: In The Polar Bear Capital Of The World, Jill Bueddefeld, Christine Van Winkle, Mary Benbow
Visitor Learning: In The Polar Bear Capital Of The World, Jill Bueddefeld, Christine Van Winkle, Mary Benbow
TTRA Canada 2018 Conference
This paper will discuss the visitor experience, design, and measurement when comparing in-situ and ex-situ nature-based tourism case studies. Particularly, this presentation will address the methods used to learn more about the social dynamics that help facilitate visitor learning and how to plan for particular types of visitor experiences. This research will also discuss the effect of place, authenticity and the importance of sustainable and responsible tourism in experiential visitor learning.
Tourism to ecologically sensitive areas, such as the Canadian Arctic, is often regarded as a way for people to learn about environmental issues such as climate change, as well …
Eat Well And Look Up At The Stars: Deconstructing The Environmental Discourses Of A Residential Summer Camp's Canoe Trips Through Algonquin Park, Brandon Pludwinski, Bryan Grimwood
Eat Well And Look Up At The Stars: Deconstructing The Environmental Discourses Of A Residential Summer Camp's Canoe Trips Through Algonquin Park, Brandon Pludwinski, Bryan Grimwood
TTRA Canada 2018 Conference
Algonquin Park was established in 1893, making it the oldest provincial park in Canada, and is just over 7,350 km2. There are over 1,200 campsites that can be booked out by various individual, groups, tour companies, organizations, and summer camps. As a result, Algonquin Park has become a massive tourism hub that hosts over 830, 000 visitors a year (Ontario Parks, 2010).
While being used by summer camps, those that travel through the land enact an environmental ethic that encourages them to think of the landscapes as pristine nature spaces that have traditionally existed outside of the human …